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Inability

January 1st, 2024 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes we meet someone who lacks the ability to do something. How do we react? As I write this post, I am having one of those weeks when I have the inability to do something simple. For some reason, I woke one day this week with a sore left knee. The next […]

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Tags: Competence · Help · Humility · Injury · Judgment · Patience · Thank you

Someone Else’s Experience

August 21st, 2023 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips People have their own experiences. Assuming their experience denies them as a person. Try to avoid such. Each person has their own experience with something. It is often the case that several people have similar experiences. That gives me the luxury of describing some “average” experience and continuing to satisfy the “average” […]

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Tags: Adults · Expectations · Learning · Other · Patience · Self

Why Persons Don’t Become Vaccinated and How to Convince Them to be Vaccinated

August 19th, 2021 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Many persons want many other persons to become vaccinated. Their methods, however, are achieving the opposite. “Become vaccinated,” is an oft-heard cry. (Actually, I read “get vaccinated” which brings cringes of pain to those of us who know the meaning of words.) And there are many who do not get the vaccine […]

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Tags: Breathe · Communication · Conversation · Health · Listening · Patience · Please · Respect · Science · Virus

This is not the Last

July 29th, 2021 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips There will be many more opportunities to convey something. I don’t need to “slip it in” today and ruin today’s message. This will not be the last blog post. This will not be the last essay. This will not be the last speech. This will not be the last public appearance. This […]

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Tags: Calendar · Clarity · Communication · Patience · Time · Writing

Fundamentals and Reviewing

September 10th, 2020 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips We disdain the review of fundamentals. We disdain fundamentals. We disdain review. I forget why. Why do we hate it when someone says, “Let’s go back to fundamentals.” Like, “Let’s review some basics of grammar and punctuation.” Why do we struggle to say, “Let’s review…anything.” I forget why. Oh, wait. That’s it. […]

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Tags: Concepts · Patience · Remember

Cause Change

June 8th, 2020 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Angst rules America this week. We have to do something. What can I change and how? Here is a set of questions to guide me. I write this in early June 2020. We have demonstrations and protests calling for justice and change. Perhaps I am too rational or practical, but I feel […]

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Tags: Alternatives · America · Change · Government · Ideas · Patience · Questions

The “Get Well” Project

February 10th, 2020 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips There is a type of project that will not only create a product, but will also cure all ills in an organization. “Get well projects” exist largely in fantasy. There is a type of project that some of us know as a “get well project.” Such are usually found in organizations that […]

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Tags: Fable · Fairy Tales · Management · Patience · Time

You Started It

December 30th, 2019 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Why are we arguing? You, or was it me, started it. And how do we have necessary discussions without starting an argument? We often perform better when united than when divided. (Often, not always.) We seem to divide when we argue. Who started the argument? You did. You raised the subject of […]

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Tags: Conversation · Differences · Patience · Time

The Leadership Retreat and the Ensuing Disaster

April 22nd, 2019 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips We do this time and time again—hold a retreat, find great ideas, and then have a disaster. When will we learn? A bunch of us spent the weekend away discussing this and that. We came up with some great ideas that the rest of you will love! Disaster ensues. This happens time […]

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Tags: Change · Ideas · Management · Patience · Time

Brevity, Clarity, and Explanations

August 6th, 2018 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips If I cannot explain something with brevity and clarity, I am not ready to explain it. Gosh, that summary is a killer. I am ready to explain something. I have this earth-changing wonderful great super-duper (note the lack of brevity and clarity) idea that the world needs to hear and implement just […]

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Tags: Brevity · Clarity · Communication · Ideas · Learning · Patience · Thinking